President Trump is Hastening ObamaCare Demise - Wants a Better HealthCare System ASAP.

Just to be clear, you're openly acknowledging that Trump's deliberately making it harder for people to get healthcare through the ACA, right? And you
suspect that he's trying to make it worse in order to force Congress to repeal it and replace it with something new, right?

So what happens to the Americans who need healthcare but can't get it through the crippled ACA if Congress still doesn't pass an alternative to the
ACA? It sounds like this ploy is risking people's lives for political gain.

Well then certainly you can appreciate how the millions of americans now paying 3x what they were paying for health care before ACA were and are
exploited for political gain as well as economic. They were promised relief and so, like dolts, voted republican who are now blaming turncoat 2 or 3
republicans for screwing up the wet dream.

Chairman Max Baucus, in the spring of 2009, signaled his desire to find a bipartisan compromise, working especially closely with Grassley, his dear
friend and Republican counterpart, who had been deeply involved in crafting the Republican alternative to Clintoncare. Baucus and Grassley convened an
informal group of three Democrats and three Republicans on the committee, which became known as the “Gang of Six.” They covered the parties’
ideological bases; the other GOPers were conservative Mike Enzi of Wyoming and moderate Olympia Snowe of Maine, and the Democrats were liberal Jeff
Bingaman of New Mexico and moderate Kent Conrad of North Dakota.

Baucus very deliberately started the talks with a template that was the core of the 1993-4 Republican plan, built around an individual mandate and
exchanges with private insurers—much to the chagrin of many Democrats and liberals who wanted, if not a single-payer system, at least one with a
public insurance option. Through the summer, the Gang of Six engaged in detailed discussions and negotiations to turn a template into a plan.

Well the whole thing is a gimmie it looks like. The republican back in the day could afford not to vote for it....it was going to pass anyway and they
could use the no vote politically. Only need to look at whats going on now to see that.

And costs going up. Yea sure they creep up every year but most surged to 3x former cost after ACA. Many went up by 6 thosand + in to years.

Well the whole thing is a gimmie it looks like. The republican back in the day could afford not to vote for it....it was going to pass anyway and they
could use the no vote politically. Only need to look at whats going on now to see that.

And costs going up. Yea sure they creep up every year but most surged to 3x former cost after ACA. Many went up by 6 thosand + in to years.

From 2005 to 2008 I saw costs double every year. You don't have to believe me, but I'm telling you, from experience, the soaring rates are not merely
due to the ACA.

Until we take the government back from the corporate lobbies, we're going to keep seeing this kind of garbage.

The things they claim to hate the worst about the ACA though, aside from the fact that it was working before President Trump decided to illegally
sabotage it, were the core of every Republican plan from 1986 onward, particularly the plans put forth in 1993 by Chaffee, Grassley, etc.

In November, 1993, Sen. John Chafee, R-R.I., introduced what was considered to be one of the main Republican health overhaul proposals: “A bill to
provide comprehensive reform of the health care system of the United States.”

Titled the “Health Equity and Access Reform Today Act of 1993,” it had 21 co-sponsors, including two Democrats (Sens. Boren and Kerrey). The bill,
which was not debated or voted upon, was an alternative to President Bill Clinton’s plan. It bears similarity to the Democratic bill passed by the
Senate Dec. 24, 2009, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Subtitle F: Universal Coverage – Requires each citizen or lawful permanent resident to be covered under a qualified health plan or equivalent health
care program by January 1, 2005. Provides an exception for any individual who is opposed for religious reasons to health plan coverage, including
those who rely on healing using spiritual means through prayer alone.

Alot of people couldn't qualify for Obamacare, like me, and now insurance is sky high.

Additionally, doctors are leaving Obamacare and we have fewer doctors in medical school because of the uncertainties of a future in medicine.
Granted, the ones there because of hoping to make big money can go away. Subsidizing med school costs makes sense.

And what about our veterans? Don't mean to drift the issue but, wow, help?

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